Example sentences of "[modal v] have [vb pp] [pers pn] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I should have asked you for more , ’ said Nubenehem . |
| 2 | As she flew up to her room , she thought her father might have killed her for that speech . |
| 3 | He might have had it for some long time , I do n't know , but I came across it in a drawer in the small bedroom when I was putting his clean linen away . |
| 4 | You could have prepared me for this — ’ |
| 5 | Nothing in our four days on the felucca with this sullen boy had prepared us for this , as nothing could have prepared him for that afternoon in Asyut . |
| 6 | We were all keen walkers , and enjoyed the challenge of remote places , but nothing in Britain could have prepared us for this close encounter of the furry kind . |
| 7 | You know they could have shot me for that . |
| 8 | they 'd have saved it for some empty classroom |
| 9 | Once upon a time , thought Lydia , when I was in love with him , he would 've socked me for that . |
| 10 | She would have admired him for that , once . |
| 11 | He could never entirely regret it , because it reminded him of working with Willie , and the passing resolves he made as a grown-up to lose some of it always contained a tang of unease about betraying his professional qualifications in the eyes of a man who would have belted him for such a thing . |
| 12 | Training at commercial art school will have prepared you for much of the work you will be doing in advertising . |